As global concerns over the environmental impact of petroleum fuels increase, alternatives such as biofuels are becoming more prevalent. Most of the world’s commodities are shipped over the oceans by large cargo vessels ...

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) provide a highly efficient means of chemical to electrical energy conversion, and as such they represent a desirable bridge between current heavy reliance on fossil fuel energy and expanded ...

Polymeric composite materials have been widely utilized to take advantage of their large specific strength and stiffness. These characteristics have made them attractive for use in aerospace applications as containment ...

In this work the chemical analysis of biological cells and tissues with time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) was explored. ToF-SIMS has the ability to obtain a mass spectrum with submicron spatial ...

The Chemical Reactor Design Tool (CRDT) is a set of computer programs that solves the equations describing common chemical reactor models. The types of reactors that can be modeled include batch reactors, continuous stirred ...

Silica-based sol-gel materials as carriers for immobilization of biological species and subsequent controllable release have experienced great examination since past decade. The transparent and robust network possesses ...

Controlling how proteins are immobilized (e.g. controlling their orientation and conformation) is essential for developing and optimizing the performance of in vitro protein-binding devices, such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent ...

Pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass is a promising process capable of producing renewable fuels and chemicals that are currently derived from nonrenewable sources. However, industrial pyrolysis processes to make these ...

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play critical roles in the activation of innate and adaptive immune responses. TLRs 3 and 9 are expressed in endosomal and lysosomal compartments and recognize nucleic acids. The activation of ...

Modern forestry practices now include the use of many controlled release products, such as herbicides, pesticides fertilizers, superabsorbents, growth stimulants and animal repellents. Optimal use of these devices requires ...

Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is the leading cause of permanent brain injury and is due to a reduction in the supply of oxygen, compounded by low blood flow to the brain. Moderate to severe HIE is the major cause ...

Although mechanical signals presented by the extracellular matrix are known to regulate many essential cell functions, the specific effects of these interactions, particularly in response to dynamic and heterogeneous cues, ...

Laser printers and copy machines produce an increasing quantity of difficult-to-recycle paper. In the last several years, the need for an effective process to de-ink the toner has prompted a number of facilities to try ...

The drive to understand the behavior and dynamics of single cells and their connection to population-based properties has prompted the microfluidic community to develop diverse micro-trapping array systems. We present ...

First, we describe the development of a protocol to quickly parameterize and validate ionic liquid force fields. Simulations that use these force fields are shown to accurately predict several thermopysical properties of ...

This dissertation is a compilation of efforts aimed at developing mixed charge and zwitterionic materials to prevent biofouling in biomedical applications. Peptides are considered for use as natural low fouling materials ...

During the past decades, plasmonic sensors have been explored extensively due to their ultra-sensitivity and emerged as a new generation of analytical tools. Two of the most widely used and studied plasmonic sensors are ...

Predicting and controlling the biophysical chemistry of protein/host interactions remains a pressing challenge of high fundamental interest across many subfields in chemistry, engineering, and medicine. Our ability to ...

Metabolic engineering in conjunction with computational protein design has the ability to expand the range of possible metabolic pathways. As a demonstration of this utility, a novel one-carbon assimilation pathway, the ...